For Christmas, I was lucky enough to be given a copy of “Prada & Schiaparelli : Impossible Conversations”, the catalogue/book of the exhibition that was held from May until August 2012 at the MET in New York. I obviously didn’t get to go to the exhibition (sniff sniff…), so it’s hard to say if it [...]

A couple of days ago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York held it’s annual Costume Institute Gala. I think one of the most talked about outfits worn to the event has to be the lace “frock” worn by designer Marc Jacobs. I was quite surprised to read some rather strong negative reactions on [...]

It’s times like this I hate the layout I chose for this site. You know it, I know it – big pics on my blog, no good! Sorry! As you know, big weddings mean HATS. And just because it’s a TV show (“Gossip Girl” – basically the lives of rich kids living in the Upper [...]

So, voting has started today (August 12th…yep, I got the date wrong in my last post!) on my competition entry!! I’m so excited! I’d very much appreciate your support! This is the sort of opportunity that could change my life, so please do cast your vote! Thank you!! You can vote for my entry, by [...]

If you’re into hats, you may be aware that recently the great Stephen Jones launched an international millinery competition!! Oh joy and excitement!! The first prize is just amazing!!! The winning hat will be exposed at Stephen Jones’  ”Hat’s : an Anthology” exhibition in New York for the whole six months it’s on (I saw [...]

Friday after work I popped into to town and picked up the second volume of ‘The Day Before’ dvds (I blogged about the first volume in March last year…time sure goes by fast!). This volume follows 6 fashion houses : Versace, Diane Von Furstenberg, Nina Ricci, Narciso Rodriquez, Jeremy Scott and Alexander Wang, for 36 [...]

I couldn’t keep this to myself! I saw a small piece in the recent issue of ‘Glamour’ magazine about a blog called ‘Advanced Style‘. A great street style blog dedicated to the fashionable ‘elderly’ folk of New York (created by Ari Seth Cohen)! I really enjoyed looking through the photos and what I’ve read so [...]

Ha ha ha! You thought I’d finished with New York?! Well, no!!! But this will probably be the last NY post though (I think I’ll just put the last couple of things/pics on my facebook page), I wonder where I’ll go to next year? So, if you like fashion and in New York, you have [...]

Hope you’re not all sick of NY, cause, well, I’m not finished yet!! So, there I was, skipping down 6th Avenue when I came across a couple of cool stores for crafty folk : M&J Trimmings and Toho Shoji. There are probably other cool supply places in NYC (I’m just an ignorant tourist!), so please [...]

As you can imagine I went around quite a lot of museums in New York – eight in all - I’m not going to talk about all of them (do you want to be tortured?), but I had to tell you guys about the exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum (it’s like two blocks away from [...]